Line Styles And DWG Files
Product:
MicroStation
Version:
V8 2004, XM, V8i, CONNECT, 2023
Environment:
N\A
Area:
DWG
Subarea:
General
Document Information
Document Type: TechNote
Legacy Document Number: 8240
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How to change the thickness and pattern of drawing lines when printing to PDF
Product(s):
MICROSTATION
Version(s):
CONNECT Edition
Environment:
N\A
Area:
Print
Subarea:
PDF
Problem
Often the characteristics of the project require manual adjustment of line thickness…
Global Line Style Scale in ORD Connect Edition
I am making the transition from MicroStation PowerInroads V8i to ORD connect edition. In V8i we had an option to change the global line style scale to change the size of our custom linestyle scales. We normally set this at half of the annotation scale…
Linestyles need to be reimported to be scaled properly (only on some machines)
Hello everyone, I have following question:
We have a .rsc file, containing defines linestyles. They display fine, correctly. However, our customer contacted us that the linestyles have different scale than they are supposed to have (they are thinner…
Text symbol is missing from my linestyle in OpenCities Map Advanced
Hello guys! I have an interesting problem that is happening to me using OpenCities Map Advanced version 17.
I have a linestyle that was created in the past V8I version, which consists of text symbol
The symbol was created with creating a text first…
Changing scale of a cell causes the subelement(line) linestyle scale to change as well
Hello guys! I have following problem(Currently on OpenCities Map Advanced update 16 [10.16.2.14] ):
I have a cell, containing single subelement of type line. (click on pictures to see them in full mode)
At this stage everything is okay, scale…
MULTILINE WITH "TEXT" LINE STYLE
Hi Everyone, I have created a custom line style which is composed of dash and text.
(see below photo)
I am using this line style in making multi-line which represents a cable trough in my layout, my problem is, this line style does not break in…
Custom Line Styles in Reference Appear Different from Parent Model in Read-Only File
Hello!
We have a file where one model is referenced into another within the same file. All [custom] line styles shown in the reference are completely different styles than how they appear in the parent model. This is only the case when the file is opened…
[CONNECT Update 16 C#] Drop own LineStyle
Hi. I would like to do more or less the same thing via C# code as the MicroStation KeyIn "drop linestyle". This should not be done interactively, but all elements (Line, LineString, Shape etc.) should be dropped with LineStyle in the DGN.
I had already…
Line Style Creation Bug
I am working on creating my own Line Styles in OpenBuildings Designer but I seem to have encountered a bug. I want to select a Base Stroke Pattern but it would not let me. How can I fix this issue?
is there a key-in to set the model Line Style properties to compound scale
I need a key-in to set the model Line Style Scale properties to Compound Scale. I've found may key-ins for different model settings, but not for this one. Is such a key-in available?
can you import png for linestyles
Can you import a png, jpg or bmp file to use in a custom linestyle?
Walls - Insulation symbology using Part centrelines
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Product(s):
OpenBuildings Designer (and AECOsim Building Designer)
Version(s):
CONNECT Edition and V8i
Area:
Architectural Design
Subarea:
Walls
Insulation is most commonly shown by linear symbology…
Is there anyone who has a solution to "Run through corners" ?
Hi,
I work a lot with mapping to authorities, and they have many requirements regarding line styles.
One requirement is to have line styles that are not "broken" at breakpoints, you want the line style complete throughout the mapped line.
When using…
Line style is not applied on a part of a line
Hi,
im wondering if anyone knows why a line style is applied on one part of a complex chain but not the other and how I can go about to make sure that the line style is applied across the whole line and not only a part of it.
Thankful for all the…
Dimension extension line style type not displaying
I'm new to microstation, bare with me. I'm working in connect edition. I have a sheet model that I'm dimension a model I referenced in. I'm trying to place dimensions where the extension lines are center lines. I opened the dimension style, under symbology…
Line styles dropped from drawing
We have a drawing where the line styles have dropped from the drawing and won't reimport? Nothing was happening with drawing at the time either...tried reimporting the lstyle.rsc but editor still stays blank. Only affects this one drawing. Anyone had…
Custom Linestyles Displayed as Solid Lines When Printing From Organizer
Hello,
I have asked a similar question here , but others in my organization are having the same issue. The MS version having the issue is SS4 - 08.11.09.867.
I have gone through the proposed solutions in the previous post and more, including:
…
I am new to MicroStation, and would like to apply 3 dimensional survey data to a plan. What skills within MicroStation would I need to learn to accomplish this?
Hello,
As the title states, I am new to MicroStation. I have a decent amount of AutoCAD experience, but those skills don't seem to translate too well into MicroStation.
Basically, I only need to do one specific thing with MicroStation: Apply 3D storm…
Update linestyles from dgnlib
Hallo, Is there a way to update linestyles in a DGN file from a dgnlib, more or less in the same way as it is possible to update levels and textstyles from a dgn library? I know there is a way to update linestyles from a rsc file, but this is in my situation…
Utilities linestyles scale
Hi Guys!
I have a drawing where to the design model space I have attached my utilities. They are attached with true scale ON, annotations scale ON and scale line styles scale ON.
I want now attached that design model to my drawing sheet as a reference…
How to create new tools?
[UPDATE]
I'm using MicroStation V8i (SELECT series 3) and I want to make some changes to a "User-defined" toolbox created many years ago with another version.
This toolbox sets active a pre-established layer, linking everything I draw to a specific…
Cells w/ text in Custom LineStyles - Text Style or no Text Style?
Morning Folks,
I'm creating custom linestyles for v8i SS2 and these custom linestyles have text within the cells that will be incorporated into the linestyle. Should the text that is a component of the cell that is repeated in the linestyle be create…
System ID for custom line styles
What is the purpose of "System ID":
This property is accessed via the custom line styles:
Element Menu-Line Styles-Edit, then double-click on one of the custom line styles
We learned (the HARD WAY!!!) that somehow this box changed its number…
Auto generated levels that won't delete
Hello,
I have several levels which automatically appear in any new .dgn file that I create. These did not appear when we used to use Descartes but since switching to Bentley Map they are in the level manager in every new file. The problem is that I…